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If Buhari is APC's candidate, then It'll be a Smooth and Landslide victory for GEJ in 2015. Ride On, Mr President!

•Oshiomhole, Okorocha, Amaechi on
the card
•Tambuwal, el-Rufai on standby for
presidential ticket
By RAZAQ BAMIDELE
Ahead of 2015 general elections and
not leaving any chances, the
opposition All Progressives Congress
(APC) is shopping for the party’s vice
presidential candidate right away.
This is even, as it was assumed that
former Head of State, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari, may get the
presidential slot. In case this option
fails, incumbent Speaker of the House
of Representatives, Hon. Aminu
Tambuwal, former Federal Capital
Territory (FCT), minister, Mallam
Nasir el-Rufai and Jigawa State
Governor Sule Lamido are on the card
as replacement. But Governor Lamido
has always said that as a founding
father of the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), he won’t
leave the party.
It was, however, learnt that the
stakeholders who met behind the
closed-door last weekend, have no
mandate of the party or of any of the
candidates being considered for the
vice presidential slot, which was the
highpoint of the parley.
The stakeholders at the meeting in
Ogun State, having been convinced
that the presidential flagbearer will
surely come from the North, are now
searching for a vice-presidential
candidate from the South in
preparation for the race.
During the meeting, which was
chaired by a chieftain from Ondo
State, some names were tabled for
scrutiny with a view to agreeing on
who to present when the chips are
down for nomination, which is
believed, could come as early as June
this year.
Some of the names on the card,
according to Daily Sun checks, are
former Governor of Lagos State and
National Leader of the party, Asiwaju
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Edo State
Governor Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole,
his Rivers and Imo state
counterparts, Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi and Rochas Okorocha
respectively as well as former
governor of Ekiti State, Otunba
Richard, Adeniyi Adebayo.
A source at the meeting, who doesn’t
want to be named, said, “if former
Head of State, General Muhammadu
Buhari eventually becomes the
party’s presidential candidate,
Tinubu will automatically pair with
him because of their experiences and
exposure as former rulers.
“If any of the former Federal Capital
Territory (FCT), minister, Mallam el-
Rufai, incumbent Speaker, Hon.
Tambuwal or Governor Lamido
eventually picks the party’s ticket,
any one among Fashola, Oshiomhole,
Amaechi, Okorocha and Adebayo can
be nominated for the vice presidential
slot.”
Daily Sun, however, gathered that the
issue of religion came up during
deliberation which the conveners felt
could have influence in the choice of
the presidential running mate.
Though, it was learnt that some of
those in attendance felt that with the
current political awareness of
Nigerians, a Muslim-Muslim or
Christian-Christian ticket can be
possible, another group is opposed to
the arrangement, saying that any
concept that did not take cognizance
of the importance of religion in any
political arrangement, would fail.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/2015-apc-shops-buharis-deputy/

If OBJ wants Forgiveness, he will get it , but he cant run the country by proxy. GEJ is not known to keep enemies, even the opposition are not seen as enemies, that's why they are running their mouths from the two sides. God Bless Nigeria!

The chairman of South-west Peoples
Democratic Party’s Mobilisation and
Organisation Committee, Buruji
Kasamu, has described leader of the
All Progressives Congress, Bola
Tinubu, as an enemy of the South-
west, calling on PDP members all
over Nigeria to put an end to political
activities of the former Lagos State
governor and his supporters.
Speaking at a meeting of the PDP
South-west in Ibadan on Saturday,
Kasamu said this year’s
governorship election in Ekiti State
would mark the beginning of PDP’s
take-over of government in the
South-west, urging leaders of the
party to put their weight behind the
party’s candidate to ensure victory.
Kasamu said, “The number one
enemy of the South-west is Bola
Tinubu. I am ready to work and stop
the activities of our (party’s) enemies
but I cannot do it alone because I am
not PDP’s leading leader, I am just
one of the leaders. With the support of
the party and our people, Ekiti will be
ours soon. We must move with a
voice to be winners again in South-
west. Some people sold the area to
our enemies and we must reject this,
starting with victories in Ekiti and
Osun states this year. I am not
looking for position but to reclaim the
region for PDP. We are stronger than
APC when we work together.”
The meeting resolved to back the
party’s national secretary, Wale
Oladipupo and urged the National
Working Committee of the party to
approve a date in January for zonal
congress to be held in the South-
west. It also reaffirmed its support for
the party national chairman,
Mamanga Tukur.
http://www.punchng.com/news/tinubu-is-swest-number-one-enemy-kasamu/

Good one. Let Jonathan make his stand known to the masses. He has really performed well, but like Oliver Twist, let him do more! GEJ till 2019.

■ 15 now Born Again Christians
return certificates to examination
body
By GABRIEL DIKE
In what may come as a big surprise
to most people, no fewer than 15
persons recently returned certificates
issued to them by the West African
Examinations Council (WAEC). They
said they had to give up the
certificates because they cheated
during the examination, and now as
Born Again Christians, they could not
live with “the sin.”
Some individuals, Saturday Sun
gathered, had approached WAEC
through letters seeking restitution
after they had confessed how they
dubiously acquired their certificates
when they wrote the examinations at
various periods.
The council wrote back to them,
stating that what they were expected
to do was to return the certificates
awarded in line with the rules and
regulations guiding the conduct of the
examinations. However, only few
responded, including a holder of
Teachers’ Grade 11 certificate.
It was learnt that those who complied
with the directive returned their
certificates to various WAEC offices
nationwide and the council took their
case to the Nigeria Examinations
Committee (NEC), which, at its 55th
meeting in Lagos, cancelled the
returned 15 certificates.
According to the council’s letter to
NEC, “the listed candidates, in their
letters of restitution, confessed that
they were involved in various forms of
examination malpractices in various
years as indicated against their
numbers. They have returned the
original certificates issued to them.’’
The returned certificates by the Born
Again Christians were for both the
May/June (school exam) and
November/December (private
candidate) West African Senior
School Certificate Examination
(WASSCE).
A breakdown of the year the
examinations were taken revealed
that the oldest dates back to June
1983 with certificate no SG 288999.
Next is June 1990 (RS0680084c),
June 1992 (NGSS 0994156), June
1995 (NGSS0265147) and December
1995 (NGSP 0169397), December
1996 (NGSP 0575264), December
2000 (NGWASSCP 038771), June
2001 (NGWASSCS 2451037).
Others are June 2002, two certificates
with NGWASSCP 4100224 and
NGWASSCS 3894794 were returned
and cancelled, June 2003
(NGWASSCS 5009313), June 2006
two born again Christian returned
certificates with NGWASSCP 7747466
and NGWASSCS 8423755, December
2008 (NGWASSCP 05790031) and
June 2010 NGWASSCP 13327157.
There are several Verses in the Bible
to support restitution, which conform
to what the 15 Born Again Christians
did by confessing their sins and
sought restitution from WAEC. In 1
John 1:9 says: “If we confess our
sins, the is faithful and just to forgive
us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness’’.
While Numbers 5:6-7 says ’’When a
man or woman commits any of the
sins that people commit by breaking
faith with the Lord, and that person
realizes his guilt, he shall confess his
sin that he has committed. And he
shall make full restitution for his
wrong’’. Efforts to get the names, and
perhaps pictures, of the 15 persons
were abortive, as WAEC officials said
it would amount to violation of the
rights of the individuals involved and
that of their (officials) ethics.
In a related development, the N55th
and 56th NEC meeting of WAEC has
hammered 493 candidates who sat
for both the May/June and
November/December WASSCE by
ordering the cancellation of their
certificates/result slips taken at
various periods.
A document available to Saturday
Sun reads partly: “The under listed
candidates were confirmed to have
been impersonated in the various
examinations and years indicated
against them. The result slips/
certificates have been returned by the
Zonal/Branch Offices concerned to
the Post Examinations Department
for cancellation.’’
A breakdown of the statistics revealed
that at the 55th NEC meeting (result
slips and certificates of
impersonators in previous GCE/SSC/
WASSC examinations), no fewer than
241 candidates were sanctioned
while at their 56th deliberation (result
slips and certificates of
impersonators in previous May/June
and November/December WASSC
examinations), a total of 252
candidates had their certificates
cancelled according to the rules and
regulations guiding the conductor of
WAEC exams.
A remarkable thing which Saturday
Sun noted in the 55th NEC meeting
decision was that the 241 cancelled
certificates involved private
candidates who wrote either the Nov/
Dec GCE or WASSCE. Thus
confirming stakeholders’ position
that exam fraud is more rampart
during the private candidate
examinations.
A breakdown of the 241 cancelled
certificates revealed that the highest
number occurred in 1998 (34),
followed by 1999 and 2001 with 26
certificates each. In 2000, it had 24,
1997 (23), 1995 (22), 2002 (19),
1994 and 1996 each had 15, 2003
(14), 1993 (12), 1987 (3), 2005 (2)
while 1985, 1986, 1991, 2006, 2007
and 2009 had one cancelled
certificate each.
For the 56th NEC decision, again
statistics from the document indicate
that majority of the 252 candidates
whose certificates were cancelled sat
for the Nov/Dec WASSCE (240) while
12 others wrote the May/June
WASSCE.
Detail breakdown of the 252
cancelled certificates at the 56th NEC
meeting showed that 2009 recorded
the highest number with 33, 2002
(26), 2007 (24), 2001 (20), 2008 and
2010 had 18 each, 2000 (17), 2004
(14), 1999, 2003 and 2006 had 13
each, 2011 (10), 1995 (eight), 1990,
1992, 1996, 1998 and 2005 recorded
four cancelled certificates each, 1993
and 1997 produced two each and one
in 1989.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/cheated-waec-exams/

Congrats to them!

Tolexander: See how she's handling a pistol like she's handling a prick!

LOL..

Awka—Governorship candidate of All
Progressives Congress, APC, Senator
Chris Ngige, has said the APC will not
participate in the forthcoming local
government election in Anambra
State.
He said this when he addressed a
press conference in Akwa, after a
crucial meeting with stakeholders
and APC aspirants on the said
election.
The local council election is
scheduled to hold on January 11,
2014.
But the APC has subsequently
directed all the party councillorship
and chairmanship candidates, as well
as its supporters to boycott the
election.
Ngige said it became necessary for
the party to take a position after
reviewing the last gubernatorial
election.
Besides, the governorship candidate
commended the people of Anambra
State for their steadfastness and
patience, alleging that “few days to
the election, voters’ register has not
been given to parties and the last
voters register used by Nigeria
Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, in conducting the
gubernatorial election has not been
reviewed, hence APC is insisting on
an authentic voters register.”
He berated INEC over what he
described as “glaring signs of the
non- readiness of INEC, hence doubt
their ability to conduct and ensure a
free, fair and credible election.”
He, however, alleged that there were
desperate moves by the All
Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in
collaboration with INEC, to ensure
that “APC is completely excluded
from all elective positions in the state
against the will of the people.”
The lawmaker, who represents
Anambra Central Constituency, also
took a swipe at the acting chairman
of Anambra State Independent
Electoral Commission, ANSIEC, Mr
Sylvester Okonkwo, for requesting
political parties to submit the list of
candidates and their forms to the
commission “when issues leading to
a free, fair and credible election in the
state are yet to be addressed.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/01/count-apc-anambra-lg-poll-ngige/

We all know Jonathan has performed well, but we want him to do more!

Nice One! One luv Nigeria!

The act of sabotage against the
country’s gas-to-power pipeline
networks by unscrupulous individuals
has taken a different turn with
discoveries that dynamites have often
been used to blow out the lines,
Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu
Nebo says.
The Minister added that the constant
destruction of key gas to power
infrastructure contributes to about 22
per cent of overall drops in electricity
supply experienced in Nigeria’s
Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) in
2013, especially recently.
Nebo gave an instance where the
western gas supply trunk line from
Warri through Escravos was found to
have been damaged at many points,
far more than was initially imagined.
Addressing members of the House of
Representatives’ Committee on
Power, led by the chairman, Patrick
Ikhariale, on an oversight visit to the
Ministry, the Minister further
lamented: “Another one at the Eastern
axis at Bokoloma were punctured at
many points and it would take the
next one month to fix.”
The impacts of these acts on the
nation’s electricity supply system
and economy at large, Nebo said,
made it necessary for the
parliamentarians to enact stiff laws
to ensure that heavy penalties are
meted on the saboteurs while serving
as deterrence to others, insisting that
such acts should not be tolerated.
“The worrisome problem associated
with vandalism according informed
the convocation of stakeholders’
forum by the office of the National
Security Adviser (NSA). This forum
brought together all security agencies
to tackle the menace, it was resolved
that information sharing among all
stakeholders is key to fighting
vandalism,” Nebo added.
He also spoke on the budget
performance of the Ministry, saying
that partial release of funds from
statutory sources have relatively
affected the implementation of
projects initiated by the ministry.
Nebo however reminded the
legislators of the peculiarity of
executing projects in the electricity
sector, especially with regards to the
level of standard engineering
prudence required to ensure safety
and efficiency of such projects.
On some of the ministry’s
achievements during the year under
review, Nebo explained that the third
Benin-Onitsha 330kV double circuit
transmission line have been
completed, while the 215 megawatts
(MW) Kaduna power plant was about
70 per cent into implementation.
The Minister equally said in his
response to reports of the hasty
decision of new owners of privatised
power generation and distribution
assets of defunct Power Holding
Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to
disengage former workers of the
electricity utility company that it was
not expedient for them to disengage
the workers in view of their possible
contributions to the successful
transmission of the sector from
government operated to private sector
management.
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/12/vandals-now-blow-gas-lines-dynamites-nebo-cries/

Is this not a contempt of court ruling?....I think so!

The Federal Government on Sunday
said it had approved a five-year
special interventional programme
that would enable it to accelerate the
socio-economic development of
states in the North-East geo-political
zone of the country.
The Minister of State for Finance, Dr.
Yerima Ngama, disclosed this during
a chat with journalists in Abuja on
Sunday.
President Goodluck Jonathan had in
response to increasingly violent
attacks by Islamic extremists,
declared state of emergency in Borno,
Yobe and Adamawa states in May.
The move had paralysed economic
activities in the region and slowed
down developmental projects being
implemented in the affected states.
As a first step towards accelerating
development in the region, the
minister said N2bn had been set
aside in the 2014 budget for the
affected states.
The N2bn, he said, would be used to
alleviate the sufferings of people in
the states.
This, according to him, will be
achieved by giving grants to poor
women and youth for the acquisition
of working equipment.
He said while the Federal
Government was working hard to
restore peace to the region, the
intervention would help to alleviate
poverty among the people.
Ngama said, “Mr. President has
some initiatives in the North Eastern
part of the country, particularly the
states under state of emergency that
has been devastated by insurgency.
“Many people have fled those places
and government has been investing a
lot to bring peace to the North East
but while government is working on
the peace initiative, government also
has to look for some of the root
causes of what is happening.
“And that is why government is
working to alleviate the economic
condition of the people in the North
East especially the youth, the women
and those people who are engaged in
one craft or the other.”
http://www.punchng.com/news/bharam-fg-approves-five-year-economic-package-for-troubled-states/

Okija_juju: Amaechi should learn to keep quiet..

I love his work in Rivers State, but he should stop being the arrow head in the opposition. Just keep quiet and let things play out. It would be difficult to deliver Rivers State to any other party and that's a fact. What hurts me most is that the opposition in Rivers State are just wolves after their own selfish interests.

2015 will not be a child's play affair. I pray Amaechi survives it, because if APC fails, the PDP will come after him so hard that it will shock me if he does not end up in jail.

U've said it all...

Amaechi is getting frustrated each day. This is the sign of a drowning man.

Afraid of backlash in PDP, National
Assembly
BY VIVIAN ONYEBUKWA
Ministers and presidential aides may
get an unpleasant New Year gift next
week, as President Goodluck
Jonathan may dissolve the Federal
Executive Council on December 31,
2013.
Daily Sun gathered that Jonathan
had been contemplating sacking the
cabinet, so that fresh blood would be
injected for the remaining part of the
administration, which would
terminate on May 29, 2015.
Competent sources revealed that in
the shake-up, ministers, who have
political ambition in 2015 would be
asked to go as well as others whose
performance was considered below
average. Some of the minister, who
would be retained, would be assigned
new portfolios.
It was gathered that Jonathan was
planning to constitute a cabinet, in
the New Year, that would have a mix
of technocrats and strong politicians,
who would help him in his
transformation agenda.
Sources revealed, however, that
Jonathan was wary of the events in
the ruling Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) and the National Assembly,
which had, in the last couple of
weeks, witnessed defection of
members to the opposition All
Progressives Congress (APC).
Daily Sun gathered that in as much
as the president wants to sack the
cabinet, he is afraid of perceived
political backlash this may have on
the PDP, which had suffered defection
of its members in the last couple of
weeks.
Five governors of the PDP had
recently defected to APC. They are
Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu
Kwankwaso (Kano), Abdulfatah
Ahmed (Kwara), Aliyu Wamakko
(Sokoto) and Murtala Nyako
(Adamawa).
Last week, 37 PDP members in the
House of Representatives also
defected to APC. The lawmakers are
mainly from Kano, Adamawa, Rivers,
Kwara and Sokoto.
Jonathan, had, last September fired
nine ministers, in his first move to
reshuffle the cabinet.
The affected ministers in the shake-
up were: Shamsudeen Usman
(National Planning); Ita Okon
(Science and Technology); Hadiza
Mailafia (Environment); Ruqayat
Rufai (Education); Zainab Kunchi
(Power, state); Olugbenga Ashiru
(Foreign Affairs); Ama Pepple (Lands)
Buka Tijani (Agriculture, state) and
Olusola Obada (Defence, state).
The Information Minister, Labaran
Maku, said President Jonathan
expressed satisfaction and
appreciation to the sacked ministers
for the excellent ways they had
handled their offices, and that he
assured them that he would engage
them in other national assignments
whenever opportunities arise.
Maku, while briefing newsmen, on the
sack of the ministers, stated that
Jonathan had promised to forward a
new list of minister nominees to the
Senate for confirmation.
He had announced that the president
had mandated the Minister of State
for Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwiliri
to supervise the activities of the
ministry, while the Minister of State
for Education, Mr. Wike, would
oversee the office of the sacked
minister.
He also announced that Jonathan
had appointed Minister for Niger
Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe to
oversee the activities of the Ministry
of Environment, while Minister of
Solid Mineral would look after the
Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban
Development.
In the same vein, Minister of
Communication Technology was
mandated to supervise the Ministry of
Science and Technology, while Maku
would oversee the Ministry of
Defence. Minister of State for Works
was appointed supervisor for Ministry
of National Planning.
The sack of the minister came barely
one month after Jonathan made
public procedure through which
minister could be rated, in what was
known as Performance Contract
Agreement.
He had stated: “I read all kinds of
thing in the media, that the president
wants to assess the ministers, so that
he would know who would go and
who would stay. That is not the
purpose of this. We would have done
it probably in the first week when we
came on board, but the key thing is
that we have given ourselves points
that we think we will get at; we
believe that if we get at those points
or even if we achieve 70 per cent of
that, at least it will be better off for
our own country.”
One month after this, nine ministers
were fired, amid speculations that it
was prompted by the crisis rocking
the PDP. Some of the sacked
ministers were believed to be loyal to
seven aggrieved PDP governors, who
had walked out at the special
national convention of the PDP and
set up a parallel exco.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/jonathan-may-dissolve-cabinet-dec-31/

Gamji007: He remained with OBJ for his sincerity.

These politicians funny die!

lol...Don't mind him. Everyone is after his own pocket

ceo4eva: It's becoming more interesting! So even the self acclaimed 'Saint' OBJ was guilty? And yet APC see him as the Messiah of Nigeria. But these Honourable Lawmakers didn't inform us how much was their own illegal allowances and entitlements within this same period. They should go back and bring out a more Comprehensive and Balanced report.

+1000 likes. bro, u get mouth

As the nation celebrates the yuletide
season, the National Agency for the
Control of AIDS (NACA), has warned
on the need to avoid risky behaviours
that propel the spread of HIV/AIDS in
the country.
The Director General, NACA, Prof John
Idoko, said the agency was issuing
the warning in fulfilment of its
mandate to curb the spread of the
dreaded virus, while reminding
Nigerians to share and show the
symbol of love responsibly.
According to Idoko, “There is a
worrisome aspect now festering
during festive season, and this is the
indiscriminate sexual and other
negative activities which can lead to
uninformed decision-making.
We are appealing to the general
public that, in sharing gifts among our
loved ones, we should not share HIV
and to also demonstrate our love by
avoiding risky sexual behaviors.”
He said the high prevalence rate of
HIV/AIDS among adults and youths in
the country called for the need to
engage in discussions on the
transmission and prevention of HIV/
AIDS at this period of Christmas, even
though increased public awareness
and advancements in medication
had, over the years, led to remarkable
strides in preventing the spread of
scourge.
The NACA DG noted, “NACA
encourages all Nigerians to perform
conscious efforts of informing one
another.
There should be coordinated effort by
parents and guardians of adolescents
to help by starting and maintaining a
conversation with their wards about
their sexual decisions which should
include facts about HIV/AIDS.”
He said that discussions at this point
could ponder on issues such as,
youths dating and sexual
engagements, abstinence and
contraception and the healthy
approach of getting tested, among
others.
“NACA wishes to also use this season
to inform Nigerians that it is
important to remember the all year
round 'ABC' messaging approach in
HIV/AIDS.
This season Nigerians can curtail the
spread of HIV/AIDS through:
abstinence, being faithful to one
partner and by use of condom for all
sexual engagements.
"Safe sex is not about protecting
oneself, but also about protecting
those we love. As a Nation, we must
all come together with our partners
and loved ones to take essential
steps towards protecting ourselves by
getting tested and knowing the
results as part of our regular health
monitoring so that our health as a
nation will improve,”he counselled.
http://leadership.ng/news/221213/xmas-share-gifts-not-hivaids-naca

omenka: In civilised societies, your dad would have used a condom!

I can confidently bet my dad is more educated and exposed than your dad

… Says APC, other opposition parties
will throw the country into chaos.
The National Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Bamanga
Tukur, on Thursday said he was not
ready to take up an ambassadorial
position because he had not
completed his tenure as the national
chairman of the ruling party.
He stated this when a team of PDP
youth drawn from 19 northern states
paid him a solidarity visit at his
Abuja residence.
Mr. Tukur was elected in March 2012
for a four-year tenure.
There were reports at the weekend
that the presidency had pencilled the
national chairman down for an
ambassadorial position following the
protracted crisis in the PDP.
The reports said the agenda was
being pushed by the governors
elected on the platform of the party
who were not comfortable with the
increasing defection of their members
to other parties, especially the All
Progressives Congress, APC.
Mr. Tukur, however, debunked the
reports, which suggested that he was
being considered for an
ambassadorial position as a way of
easing him out of his job.
According to him, there was no iota
of truth in the reports which he
described as figment of the
imagination of their authors,
stressing that the presidency never
contemplated sending him out of the
country as an ambassador under any
guise.
He told the youth, led by Galadima
Yahya, that he was not distracted by
the sustained campaign of calumny
against him, the PDP and the
Presidency, more so when the source
of such campaign had been traced to
familiar quarters.
“I have a job to do as the PDP
Chairman, and I cannot throw in the
towel in the middle of it just because
certain individuals known for selfish
motives get to the media to fund
fictitious report often crafted to
precipitate crises in our party and
ultimately cause its fall,” Mr. Tukur
said.
He described the crises within the
party as a phase that would pass
away once preparations for 2015
general elections begins.
“The crises we are witnessing in PDP
are about 2015. The promoters are
members who wanted to be President
at all costs, they are those who
wanted to be vice President at all
costs and those who wanted to seek
re-election as governors. Most of
them felt if there was no crisis, their
different ambitions would not be
fulfilled,” he stated.
Mr. Tukur said the National Working
Committee, NWC, of PDP had always
meant to institute reforms meant to
deepen democratic ethos in the party.
According to him, efforts by the
committee to kick start the process
had consistently been rebuffed by
members who, he said were averse to
reforms.
“If you check it very well, the people
who say Tukur must go cannot lay
hand on one reason to justify their
wish,” the national chairman said.
“I did nothing to violate the
constitution of the party. I did nothing
to wrong anyone. I did nothing to soil
my hands in anything. My conscience
vindicates me every time. So I am free
as the PDP National Chairman.
“Now some people said I am not a
friend of the governors. But they
forgot that during my campaign, I
visited all of them one by one to sell
my programmes for the party. We
started with the process of
reconciliation and asked estranged
members to return to the party. Some
people opposed it.”
Mr. Tukur said the party resolved that
internal democracy should start with
transparent elections and in some
cases, consensus, adding that those
who opposed reform preferred
selection and imposition of
candidates during elections.
“They preferred the way of
dictatorship rather than being
democratic. And when these are not
allowed, then they say Tukur must
go,” he lamented.
Mr. Tukur urged members of the PDP
to key into the agenda of reform in
order to make the party Nigeria’s
strongest and most dependable.
He argued that it was only when
Nigeria had a strong ruling party that
the government could be strong,
stressing, “A strong government
would always produce a strong
economy, and then a strong society.
That is why we are always behind
President Goodluck Jonathan to
succeed.”
Mr. Tukur asked party faithful to put
behind them issues about crises
within the party and brace up for the
challenges of taming the opposition
ahead of the coming general
elections.
He said he was convinced that
Nigeria had no alternative to PDP,
adding that the opposition party had
not developed the capacity and the
wisdom to manage Nigeria effectively
like the PDP.
He asked Nigerians not to give the
opposition the opportunity to govern
the country because they would
cause chaos.
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/151768-ill-quit-pdp-chairman-till-2016-tukur.html

Eseose9: wonder why this topic is not on front page?

I wonder too

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Ikengawo: APC is putting all of the evil wizards of Nigera's misfortune and making Jonathan the face of a new nigeria because GEJ is cutting ties with their bastards and goblins the way an honorable man would. It's sad because a party that was once famous for fielding men like Fashola is now in the news for seeking men like Obasanjo Atiku Yermia Danjuma and other national parasites

that means if GEJ beats APC, GEJ has beat godfatherism in Nigeria (Obasanjo, Atiku, Ibb, Tinubu)

U've Said It All....

.....nawaa...but 1.9 trillion no be small money na..

The Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, Central Bank of Nigeria,
Federal Inland Revenue Service and
Department of Petroleum Resources
held a meeting behind closed door
that dragged till late Monday night at
the NNPC headquarters in Abuja.
Our correspondent reported that the
meeting was conveyed to discuss the
alleged non-remittance of $49.8bn to
the Federation Account by the NNPC
as well as other financial matters
that needed clarity.
It was learnt that the Group Managing
Director, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu,
might have been summoned to the
Presidential Villa as a result of the
controversies surrounding the alleged
non-remittance of the revenue.
Although the General Manager, Media
Relations Department, NNPC, Dr.
Omar Ibrahim, stated that the GMD
often visited the villa, sources said
the presence of Yakubu there on
Monday had a lot to do with the
alleged missing $49.8bn.
Ibrahim said, “I can confirm to you
that the meeting has been ongoing for
hours. I can also confirm to you that
it is not just the $49.8bn issue that is
been discussed. Other matters are
being addressed by the officials of the
NNPC, CBN, FIRS and DPR.
“They are having a meeting to
reconcile figures among the agencies
of government that are involved. Up
till this moment (8.10pm) that I am
speaking to you, they are still there
and may not finish until all the issues
are resolved.”
Asked if the GMD was summoned to
the Presidential Villa as a result of the
alleged missing fund, Ibrahim said,
“The NNPC GMD always goes to the
villa and I don’t think his visit this
time is related to the issue of the $
49.8bn.”
The Governor of the CBN, Mr. Lamido
Sanusi, had accused the NNPC of
failing to remit the sum.
Sanusi complained to President
Goodluck Jonathan via a letter about
the continuing refusal of the NNPC to
honour its legal obligations, including
failure to remit the said amount,
which he said represented 76 per cent
of the value of crude oil lifting during
the period.
Meanwhile, the Economic
Management Team on Monday met
at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The meeting was attended by
members, including the Minister of
Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
and the CBN governor.
It was learnt that both Sanusi and the
NNPC GMD were asked some
questions about the unremitted $
49.8bn oil revenue.
http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/49-8bn-scandal-nnpc-cbn-others-in-reconciliation-meeting/

The National Chairman of All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA),
Chief Victor Umeh has enjoined
President Goodluck Jonathan to
ignore the antics of former President
Olusegun Obasanjo saying that after
all, he, Obasanjo created most of the
problems inherited by Jonathan.
Umeh who spoke to journalists in
Awka advised Chief Obasanjo not to
misinterpret President Jonathan’s
humility as weakness, and contended
that Obasanjo ought to be in jail now
for sundry crimes against humanity,
citing the Odi and Zaki Biam
massacres as examples.
Umeh said Nigerians should hold
Chief Obasanjo responsible for the
present woes of the country as he
bungled very bright opportunity of re-
positioning and launching the country
on course for sustainable greatness.
He regretted that instead of Obasanjo
uniting the country on assumption of
office in 1999, he carried on a war of
hate against Ndigbo and continued to
undermine their growth and welfare.
Chief Umeh regretted that Chief
Obasanjo continued to promote
ethnic and religion differences, that
resulted in wholesale violence and
loss of lives that qualified him to be
tried for crime against humanity.
He noted that under the former
President, corruption and impunity
became a way of life in the country
when privileged few were given
monopoly on economic powers.
Chief Umeh said Chief Obasanjo’s
letter was a confirmation of the heavy
blow his administration dealt on
democracy when election rigging and
manipulations were used to muscle
out opposition parties and recalled
that APGA suffered the same terrible
fate in 2003, when its victory in many
states was given to PDP and it took
three years of legal battle for Governor
Peter Obi of Anambra State to reclaim
his mandate.
He made clear that Chief Obasanjo
had no positive reference point or
legacy for the people of Nigeria and
should therefore not to be taken
seriously.
The APGA Chairman noted in
particular billions of dollars
squandered by the Obasanjo regime
on the power sector without any
result as well as the huge resources
wasted in pursuit of his third term
bid.
Umeh urged Jonathan to continue his
dedicated service to the nation and
commended his knack for building
enduring democratic institutions that
allow the electorate to elect leaders
of their choice without interference
with Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) or the peoples
vote.
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/12/igbo-hatred-still-oozing-obasanjo-umeh/